thats what i thought… i will continue to investigate and post back if i find anything.

the converter its self doesnt really get hot.(that i have noticed) it just the wire to the pi. and once it drops, it doesnt adjust anymore.

http://a.co/4qRQUQJ

i ran into this problem awhile back but got put on the backburner.

i have a wire getting hot and a buck down converter that changes reading once my pi is plugged in. Any info is appreciated!

My problem with it was that I didn’t want to have the brick of it out side the case. Or 3 foot of wire looped inside but I’ll have to cut it to add the step down anyway. So I may as well try it that way first. But I also didn’t know if it was big enough for both To run off of.

before i buy a power supply i wanted to ask if the one i had for it would work, if i spliced the adapter into it?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/112168199465

How do these look?
http://s.aliexpress.com/67rmau6V?
http://s.aliexpress.com/vuaEjyAR?

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F191903753580
This converter isn’t adjustable and it’s only 5.0 v would this work?

@MadScientist ok awesome! That really did help I wasn’t thinking of doubling them up in the terminal.